Father-Daughter Dance
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I once made a stranger bleed out from his eyes
After transcribing his skeleton, and then reading
His scratched-up bones back to him.
I was thirteen when it happened, English class
When I fi...
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Categories:
orthodontia, absence, age, anger, hate,
Form: Free verse
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...A father in his thirties
Snapped pictures
Of his tween daughter
“Shake your hair out”
And she swung it
This way and that
“Beautiful”, he said
And she beamed
Flashing orthodontia
Th...
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Categories:
orthodontia, daughter, father
Form: Free verse